12 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
9812 | In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou] |
9813 | Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou] |
9809 | Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou] |
9811 | It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
6493 | We are not conscious of pure liquidity, but of the liquidity of water [Firth] |
9814 | All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |